Gring-Pemble, Lisa

Position:Associate Professor, Director of Social Entrepreneurship and Global Impact, Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and Co-Founder and Consultant to the Honey Bee Initiative

Phone:703-993-4174

Office Location:Enterprise Hall 025

Office Hours:Monday and Wednesday, 11AM-12PM and by appointment

Research Interests:

Social impact, innovation, and entrepreneurship

Rhetorical criticism, argument, persuasion

Political communication and public policy

Education:

PhD - Communication, University of Maryland

MA - Communication, University of Maryland

BA - Political Science and Hispanic Studies, St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN)

Profile:

Lisa M. Gring-Pemble is an associate professor in the School of Business at George Mason University. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Olaf College, she received her M.A. and Ph.D. in rhetoric from the University of Maryland.

Since joining George Mason University in 2000, she has pursued teaching and research around three main areas: 1) global impact and engagement, 2) argumentation and persuasion, and 3) political communication and public policy. She is author of Grim Fairy Tales: The Rhetorical Construction of American Welfare Policy and a co-editor of Readings on Political Communication. Her work has appeared in The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Political Communication,Rhetoric & Public Affairs, and Communication Quarterly.

Gring-Pemble delights in teaching undergraduates and is a 2005 George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award recipient and 2017 OSCAR Mentoring Excellence Award recipient. As the Director of Global Impact and Engagement, Gring-Pemble supports university-wide initiatives that engage students of all majors in social innovation and entrepreneurship. She also serves as George Mason University’s Ashoka Change Leader and the advisor to the George Mason University Honey Bee Initiative, which she co-founded.

Duhita Mahatmya and Lisa M. Gring-Pemble. 2014. "DREAMers and Their Families: A Family Impact Analysis of the DREAM Act and Implications for Family Well-Being." Journal of Family Studies 20.1: 79-87. Gring-Pemble, Lisa. 2012. “It’s We the People . . . , Not We The Illegals”: Extremist Rhetoric in Prince William County, Virginia’s Immigration Debate. Communication Quarterly 60.5: 624-648.

Moderator, Press and Politics Panel at the National Press Club for the George Mason University Washington Journalism and Media Conference. 12 July and 18 July 2016.

Accolades

Presented the paper titled, “Rhetoric, Risk, and Recession: The Rhetorical Underpinnings of the Collapse of the U.S. Housing Market in 2006” at the Eastern Communication Association in Boston, Massachusetts in 2017.